Salt and pepper shaker.



H KOBAYASHI.

SAL'T Am PEPPER SHAKER.'

APPLICATION FILED EEB. 81 I917- L25A90 I Patented. Jan.22,1918.

llVI/EIVTOR at. Los Angeles, in the count MQJmO KOBAYASEI, 0F L05 ANQELES, CALIFORNIA.

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SALT AN 1D PEPPER, SHAKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jam. $2, rain.

\spplication filed February 8, 1917. Serial No. 147,486.

To all whom (it may concern:

Be it known that I, Hmoamo KOBAYASHI, a subject of the Emperor of Japan, residing of Los Angeles and State of California, ave invented new and useful Improvements inv Salt and Pepper Shakers, of which the following is a specification. v

My invention relates to improvements in salt and pepper shakers, and the objects of my improvements are, to provide a convenient shaker by which salt or pepper can be scattered and spread; to prevent the salt from becoming wet; to close the salt recept-acleautomatically; to provide a double a receptacle, one compartment for salt and ings the other for pepper; to provide an automatically moving closure over the o ening of the two compartments keeping t e salt receptacle automatically closed preventing the salt from becoming wet, the closure being provided with openings matching with the openings in the two compartments in such a manner that a series of openings in the closure match with the openings in one compartment while a second series of openin the closure are so arranged that they dovnotmatch with the openings in the second compartment before the rst series of openings has been shifted far enough that the openingsin the first compartment are closed by-the closure; the invention consisting in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereafter more fullydescribed and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which-'- Figure 1 is a vertical cross section of my device.

,Fig. '2 is a side view. a Fig. 3 is a top View. Similar numbers refer ,to similar parts throughout the papers.

The receptacle 1 in. the drawing is provided with the compartment 2 for salt and am the compartment 3 for pepper. Fill -openings tare provided in the bottom of the two compartments of the shaker or recep- 5; Discharge openings 6 are provided in the upper end of. t

of alinement, the closure tacle which are normally closed by the plugs e compartment for the salt, and discharge openings 7 are provided in the upper end of the compartment for the pepper. A recess 8 is formed in the receptacle or shaker outside of the compart ments at the top end adjacent to the discharge openings. A closure plate 9 is slidingly mounted in the recess transversely above the dischar e openings. The closure plate is continue bent downwardly and attached at the lower end of the shaker as indicated at 10. A spring 11 is disposed between the downwardly extending end 12 of the closure plate and the shaker. The closure plate 9 is' provided with holes or perforations 13 matching with the dischargeopenings 7 in the top end of the compartment for the pepper. The perforations or holes 14 are provided in the closure plate to match with the discharge openings 6 in the top end of the compartment for the salt, but normally these holes 1a are shifted out plate 9 normally keeping the discharge openmgs 6 closed preventing the salt from becoming wet or damp.

Havin this salt and pepper shaker in the han it is operated by pressing the downwardlyextending end 12 or releasing the same thereby shifting the closure plate 9 to match the holes 13 in the closure plate with its discharge openings 7 in the pepper compartment, or, to match the holes 14 in the closure plate with the discharge openhe end 15 of the closure forming a stop for the shift ng of the 010- sure plate.

Having claim A salt and thus described my invention, it

pepper shaker comprising se arate compartments for salt and pepper, t e

separate compartments having separate discharge openings, two opposing sides of the shaker having extension ends projecting upwardly and overlapping the top to a suitfor a closure plate, a closure plate slidingly mounted over the-top below the guiding members terminatingin a bent end engag ing over the edge of the shaker for termilli.- able extent for forming a guiding member nating the shifting of the closure plate the In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my opposlte end of t e closure plate terminatsignature in the presence of two witnesses. ing in a, spring member also bent over the shaker on the opposite side of the shaker HIKOJIRO KOBAYASHI' 5 top, and spaced from the shaker side and Witnesses:

connected to the shaker side, all substan- MASAYOSHI KOJ'IMA,

tially as described. 7 F. K. KOGH. 

